Reviews

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

moaag's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

rach2023's review against another edition

hopeful reflective slow-paced

rebenka's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

halfbakedastronaut's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

"I have always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I have worked hard at being the hero of my own life, but every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. 

Longing? Yes. Belonging? No."

wendy_bookworm's review

emotional inspiring fast-paced

4.0

maddb_96's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

3.5

emwoodley's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.5

katykelly's review against another edition

4.0

Read lovingly by the author, I enjoyed this audiobook. A good insight into Winterson's world. It does help if you've read Oranges are not the Only Fruit but not necessary. Honest and shocking, funny and bleak.

biblio_popins's review against another edition

funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

4.0

katieinca's review against another edition

4.0

Well, if I'd read this before I met her, I wouldn't have felt so embarrassed for being strange and weepy. I would have just accepted her hugs and smiles. And after all, it got me an ARC and a lovely inscription.
I recommend this for:
-anyone who's read her books
-anyone with adoption and/or parent and/or childhood issues
Also, if you haven't read her books, go do that, then come back and read this. I just love her. I love her prose, I love her perspective, I love her humor.